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Meredith Woerner Deputy Editor, Variety.com Guitarist, actor, friend and beloved subject from the 1999 documentary “American Movie” Mike Schank has died. According to the Milwaukee Record, Schank passed away early this morning, he was 56. The exceedingly gifted screamer was a highlight from the cult-loved documentary directed by Chris Smith. The film followed Wisconsin director Mark Borchardt as he attempted to film his fraught horror movie “Coven.” With a crew made up of friends and family members, just about every part of the production process fell apart, except for Schank who was always there for his friend. Schank appeared as an extra, assistant, edit bay buddy and epic storyteller.

Blink 182 have announced that they have reunited with guitarist Tom DeLonge, with tour dates and new music on the way.DeLonge left the band in 2015 to focus on “non-musical activities”, five years after the band reunited following a previous split in 2005. During his time away he became famous for his work on UFOs, although he did continue to make music too, recording a solo album as well as new material with his other band Angels & Airwaves.Blink 182 continued on, and began talking to DeLonge again last year after bassist Mark Hoppus revealed that he had been diagnosed with cancer.

Some things do change. Former Rascal Flatts frontman Gary LeVox revealed that he and his former bandmates don’t communicate regularly.

A.D. Amorosi There’s a handsome backstory to Friday night’s concert “The Town Hall and T Bone Burnett Present a Tribute to Bob Dylan” — produced in partnership with the Bob Dylan Center — that went beyond present-day artists merely doing a set of covers. Dylan. New York City’s Town Hall. The two go hand-in-hand like whiskey and soda. In 1963, when the bourgeoning poet-folkie could no longer be confined by Greenwich Village’s coffee houses, his shrewd then-manager Albert Grossman chose the civic hall built by the League for Political Education to mark Dylan’s major league debut and unite his social consciousness with commerce for the first (but not the last) time.Dylan and T Bone Burnett also go hand-in-hand like whiskey and pretty-much-anything. Not only did Dylan pluck Burnett to be a guitarist on his legendary Rolling Thunder Revue tour of the late 1970s, Burnett recently produced Dylan’s one-off recording of “Blowin’ in the Wind” for Burnett’s Ionic Original acetate-format project with an auction price of nearly $1.8M. (Burnett is also linked to Town Hall with his smart co-production of 2013’s “Another Day, Another Time at the Hall”) in celebration of the Coen Brothers’ cinematic ’60s folk love letter “Inside Llewyn Davis.”

Dave Navarro will be noticeably missing from Jane’s Addiction upcoming tour.

Oasis guitarist Paul “Bonehead” Arthurs has announced that he no longer has cancer.The news follows Arthurs undergoing treatment in June, after he was diagnosed with tonsil cancer in April of this year.“Update on my cancer”, the musician and founding Oasis member shared in an Instagram statement. “I had a full scan 10 days ago, and it’s all clear, it’s gone.

This is not a drill, Paramore fans (and shippers in particular)! Hayley Williams and Taylor York just announced they’re DATING!!! WHAT?!!

Hayley Williams, the lead singer of Paramore, confirmed in an interview published in The Guardian on Thursday that she and bandmate Taylor York are dating.While she did not provide details of their relationship, the confirmation was no surprise as rumors about the duo being linked romantically have circled for years.York, 32, joined the band in 2007 and has witnessed many of Williams' relationships, including her sour split from ex-bandmate Josh Faro and brief marriage to New Found Glory guitarist Chad Gilbert. Together: Hayley Williams, the lead singer of Paramore, confirmed she and bandmate Taylor York are dating; seen in 2013 in BostonFans seemed elated about the news, while some shared a concern for Paramore should the love affair go south.The news about Williams and York comes on the heels of their new YouTube video for their song This is Why.

Hayley Williams has found love in her own band.

Paramore fans are flipping out!

Judas Priest has revealed that he’s currently recovering from his second open heart surgery.Sharing the health update via social media on Tuesday (September 27), the guitarist disclosed that he’d undergone the surgery six weeks ago, following the European leg of Judas Priest’s current world tour. “Just before we toured Europe,” Faulkner recalled, “scans showed a hole in one of the connections between the synthetic graft and my own aorta.”Faulkner went on to explain the condition, writing that “the blood from the leak was forming an 8cm sack that was surrounding [his] heart.” The guitarist elaborated on the procedure, saying that doctors were able to “remove the sack and fix the leak.” Now, weeks later, Faulkner said he is “feeling well and strong,” and is “looking forward” to resuming the next jaunt of the metal band’s ongoing tour.A post shared by Richie Faulkner (@falconfaulkner)Faulkner accompanied the update with a video of the crowd at last year’s Louder Than Life music festival.

She is promoting her second studio album Moss.And Maya Hawke displayed her edgy fashion sense as she performed at the SiriusXM Hollywood Studio on Tuesday.The singer, 24, rocked a striped, nautical themed dress and Prada black boots as she performed alongside her guitarists. Songbird style! Maya Hawke displayed her edgy fashion sense as she performed at the SiriusXM Hollywood Studio on TuesdayMaya's frock buttoned down the front and tied at the waist.

A post shared by HIT THE LIGHTS (@hitthelightsoh)Hit The Lights added: “It is a massive loss for so many, and our hearts and thoughts are with the rest of his friends and family, who we know are grieving as deeply as we are. Kyle Maite Forever.”The group have set up two GoFundMe pages in Maite’s honour – one is raising money to cover funeral costs, and the other will help the late musician’s family with “any expenses [they] may endure during this difficult time”.“Once we have some time to regroup and mourn, we will be making future announcements,” Hit The Lights told their fans.

Steve Lacy has announced details of a short UK and European tour in late 2022 – see the list of dates below and buy tickets here.The guitarist of The Internet released his second solo album ‘Gemini Rights’ this summer, and will bring it to Europe for four gigs in December.The ‘Give You The World’ tour will begin in London on December 11 with a show at the Roundhouse in Camden. Shows in Amsterdam (December 14 at Melkweg), Paris (December 16 at Trianon) and Berlin (December 19 at Metropol) will then follow.See the full list of dates below and buy tickets for the London gig here.DECEMBER 202211 – London, Roundhouse14 – Amsterdam, Melkweg16 – Paris, Trianon19 – Berlin, MetropolReviewing ‘Gemini Rights’ upon its release in July, NME said: “Considering the sometimes-radical experimentation that was heard on his debut (‘Apollo XXI’’s second song ‘Like Me’, for instance, clocked in at nine minutes), Lacy has heeded Missy Elliot’s wisdom on his second LP in his own way.“While his solo music and work with The Internet have infiltrated the mainstream in more discreet ways, ‘Gemini Rights’, which feature his most direct compositions yet, will make the ‘cult artist’ tag surrounding Lacy increasingly redundant.”After the album was released, Kanye West shared his love for Steve Lacy‘s new album, calling him “one of the most inspiring people on the planet”.

Nickelback frontman Chad Kroeger has revealed that fans have been saying his name wrong for years.According to Kroeger, his second name is not pronounced as it appears and it is in fact spoken like iconic horror villain Freddy Krueger in The Nightmare On Elm Street franchise.“It’s [Kroo-ger], don’t trust the internet,” he told Loudwire.The frontman went on to say that he has never corrected interviewers or hosts because he didn’t want to appear rude.“If I just stop and go, ‘Actually, it’s Kroo-ger,’ I’m gonna look like such a dick. So I’m just like whatever, I don’t care,” he said.He recalled that one of the few times it was corrected was in a 2004 interview alongside Alice In Chains‘ Jerry Cantrell, in which the guitarist corrected the interviewer’s pronunciation.“I sort of looked over at Jerry, and he goes, ‘It’s your name, dude.

A.D. Amorosi When Demi Lovato debuted her fresh, hard, alt-rocking material on “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” earlier this summer, the blonde guitarist headbanging alongside the vocalist tore into her six strings as if they owed her money. That was Nita Strauss, the Los Angeles-based guitarist whose crunching chords and pummeling rhythmic interplay lift the rocking arrangements and curt, hurt lyrics of Lovato’s “Holy Fvck” tracks to another level in a live setting. “Once the sonic journey that my latest album, ‘Holy Fvck,’ takes listeners on became clear,” Lovato tells Variety via email, “I knew I wanted to bring in a band for the ‘Holy Fvck Tour’ that is not just very skilled at live instruments, but also know how to have a good time on stage, and are performers in their own right.

Metallica guitarist Kirk Hammett has entered the world of horror fiction, posting the first chapter of a story he’s writing called ‘I Have To Get Rid Of This Guitar I Found’ onto Reddit, along with some music to soundtrack it on TikTok.The story opens with a message from fictional character Abigail Forte, who explains: “I recently found a lead that might help in the search for my brother, William ‘Wills’ Forte”.That lead is “a journal he had written, along with a cassette that was filled with what can only be described as very unusual field recordings. Seeing as the nature of these recordings seemed to push towards an evil energy, I sent the tape to a friend to help me understand the music, who in turn sent it to guitarist Kirk Hammett”.“We have decided that while we cannot allow the actual sounds from the cassette to be released, we can share renditions of the music”, it goes on.

Pattie Boyd has joked she demanded royalties from ex-husband Eric Clapton as part of their divorce settlement for inspiring his rock classic ‘Layla’. The model and rock muse, now 78 and a successful writer, was wooed from her husband, Beatles guitarist George Harrison, after Eric played her his 1970 anthem and told her it was written in honour of his love for her. But she resisted leaving George, who died aged 58 in 2001, for Eric until the Beatle’s cheating led to their divorce in 1974.

A guitarist proposed to his bandmate girlfriend on the main stage of a rock festival while projecting out the proposal on a giant screen.

Cradle of Filth guitarist Stuart Anstis has died aged 48, it has been confirmed.The news was broken by another former member of the band, guitarist Richard Shaw.“Rest in peace, Stuart. It was an honour performing your music,” Shaw wrote in an Instagram post.He added: “Thoughts are with his friends and family at this difficult time.”A post shared by Richard Shaw (@richardshawguitarist)The band’s vocalist Dani Filth also paid tribute, writing: “It is with a deeply saddened heart that I have heard of the passing of my former guitarist Stuart Anstis at 48.“Stuart -despite our eventual differences- was an amazingly talented guitarist who brought a real sense of magick to everything he wrote in Cradle Of Filth.”Dani added: “For a long time he and I were bestest of friends living in a small village here in Suffolk and despite that relationship eventually changing, it did nothing to diminish the fan’s appreciation of his creative flair and talent right up to the present day.“‘Vempire’, ‘Dusk… and Her Embrace’ (though written mostly by former members, Stuart played all the guitars on this album), ‘Cruelty And The Beast’ and ‘From the Cradle To Enslave’ would have been completely different creatures if it were not for the depth of his astute and deliciously dark musicianship.“It truly is with a heavy sense of loss that we (and extreme music in general) bid farewell to Stuart,” he concluded.“May sombre flights of ravens wing you to your grave mate.”It is with a deeply saddened heart that I have heard of the passing of my former guitarist Stuart Anstis at 48.

Jem Aswad Senior Music Editor Former Cradle of Filth guitarist Stuart Anstis, who was a member of the group from 1995 through 1999, died on August 21, according to posts from his wife Antoinette and former bandmate Richard Walsh. No cause of death was cited; he was 48. Antoinette wrote on the guitarist’s Facebook page, “Rest in Peace, you were too beautiful for this world me Lover. “Nothing will ever be the same again, Love Always and ever your Antoinette Until we meet again…” Band founder Dani Filth wrote, also on Facebook: “It is with a deeply saddened heart that I have heard of the passing of my former guitarist Stuart Anstis at 48.